Is it too hot, too cold, or just too green?

As a young lad in Columbus, Ohio, I remember watching a local weatherman by the name of Jerry Razor. After giving the forecast, Razor trotted out a shaggy dog, commanded him to sit and placed a biscuit on his snout. At his signal the dog flipped the biscuit up and caught it (or not) in his jaws. If the dog was successful it meant he agreed with the forecast, but if the biscuit was dropped it was disagreement. Razor kept a running log on TV that showed who was ahead on correct predictions: Sometimes he was doing well and other times the mongrel had the winning stretch.

This tongue-in-cheek approach to weather forecasting in central Ohio was born from frustration in attempting to predict the path of the Jet Stream. That was the main influencer, and if it zigged further north or south than figured, the forecast was totally off. I imagine today’s computer modeling techniques have tremendously enhanced their abilities.

During college days, I lived one summer in California on Monterey Bay. Totally different story: Temperatures were accurate to within a degree or two, and they could predict within minutes when the morning fog would ‘burn off.’ The Jet Stream wasn’t really in play. Today they’re still struggling to figure out what El Nino and La Nina will do.

I won’t likely forget the first winter in my first house and shoveling snow off the roof. Or one of my early business trips where I was stranded in a hotel for days because of the blizzard and ‘white out.’ People died in their cars on the interstate, buried in ice.

This was all during the 1970s, the era of Global Cooling. Time Magazine posted an article titled, “Another Ice Age?” Scientists argued back and forth whether we were entering another glacial period or if it were just temporary.

Different story today, eh? The brief era of Global Warming didn’t sit well with folks like me who remembered living through predictions that we’d all freeze to death, so we’ve entered the era of Climate Change. That makes much more sense. And, driven by the United Nations and organizations joined at the hip to the UN, we’ve learned that humans are responsible for the current alarming weather patterns.

Forget ‘Climate Gate,’ where U.N. scientists around the globe falsified weather data to build their case. Forget that the Global Science Status Report predicted this month that we are entering a Global Cooling era (yes, cooling!). Of the 24 parameters tracked, only three show a continued warming trend. Arctic sea ice has stabilized and will begin to grow as we “head into many years of deep cold.”

Let’s put it this way: Barack Obama doesn’t have a clue about ‘climate change.’ Nor does he really believe we must save the planet ‘for the children.’ Folks, BO doesn’t give a twit about the Earth or the kids — this is all about politics. He’s on board with U.N. aspirations in this field (and many others), and he’s gonna do what he’s gotta do to appease a base that wants the same thing — control over the free market. They want the say so. They want to decide winners and losers. The good-hearted, well-intentioned and naïve will swallow the empty words calling for renewed responsibility from this president seeking to manipulate markets and votes.

Let us not be distracted from the many scandals his administration has recently brought upon us. May a deep freeze descend upon them all.